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Time on your Hands
Cooking time:
1 hour 40 minutes
Method
Entertaining
Twice Cooked Duck
Ingredients
500ml (20floz) chicken stock
4 garlic cloves
3 lemon grass stalks (bulb and central stem only –
crushed or finely sliced) or use lemongrass purée
15ml (1tbsp) finely grated fresh ginger
10ml (2tsps) five-spice powder
salt and black pepper
1 large duck
90ml (6tbsps) soy sauce
60ml (4tbsps) orange juice
90ml (6tbsps) runny honey
dash of tabasco sauce
1. Bring the stock to a simmer in a large pan.
2. Add 2 garlic cloves, lemon grass and ginger. Add half the coriander and five-spice powder
and season.
3. Add the duck to the pot with just enough boiling water to cover.
4. Bring to a gentle simmer and allow to poach for 50 - 55 minutes. (Do not boil) Leave to cool
in liquid.
5. When cold remove the duck.
6. Drain the stock through a sieve and reserve about 300ml (10floz).
7. Combine the remainder of the spices with 2 crushed garlic cloves. Add the soy sauce, orange
juice and honey.
8. Place the duck on the wire grid over the roasting/grill pan. Brush 1/ 2 the mixture over the duck.
9. Season with salt and pepper and a dash of tabasco.
10. Roast the duck at 180°C for 20 minutes. Reduce the heat to 160°C and roast for another
20 minutes until crisp and brown. Leave duck to rest.
11. Reheat the reserved stock. Add the other half of soy mixture and pour into the saucepan.
12. Pour the sauce through a sieve. Bring to boil and simmer for 5 minutes, serve with the duck.
Note: For a crisper result, roast for the full 40 minutes using the Circo-roasting setting at 170°C.
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Complete Meal Ideas
If you’re an experienced cook you’re probably
learnt how to time your food preparation so that
you get all the food to the table at the same
time, without getting yourself into a nervous
state. You understand that cooking is only one
part of entertaining, and often the easiest. More
difficult is the planning and timing to ensure that
food isn’t overcooked or cold when you finally sit
down to eat.
If you are inexperienced at cooking, putting a
meal together can be a real challenge. What do
you start cooking first? What can you prepare in
advance? What foods look good together on the
plate? These are all questions you will have to
answer.
At the beginning of the book we told you that we
want you to get the most enjoyment from your
new oven, so we have asked our home economists
to guide you (step by step) through the
preparation of 2 meals. Our traditional Sunday
lunch is ideal if you’re inviting your new mother
and father in law around for lunch.
The Guinea Fowl dinner would be perfect for
a dinner party or special occasion.
The most important thing is planning. Make sure
you have everything you need before you start.
Prepare ahead those things that can be frozen
or reheated later in the day. Get the table set
the night before if possible. Choose foods that
don’t require a great deal of supervision, and let
your Neff oven do most of the work.
Relax and enjoy the cooking experience in no
time at all you’ll be an expert!
Two simple meal plans to help you utilise
your Neff oven to the full.
Roast Beef Meal
Guinea Fowl au Vin
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